[cuban leaf]

2. GM’s culture is broken. The company can’t make reliably safe cars

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I’m sorry, but 13 deaths out of 1.6 million cars does not an “unsafe” car make.

I HATE GM, but this demand for perfection is laughable.

[Sherman Logan]

2. GM’s culture is broken. The company can’t make reliably safe cars

Absolutely correct. Somebody ought to sit down and figure out how many trillions of miles these 1.6M cares were driven and thus the deaths per mile.

Then go ahead and say it's unsafe to drive 10 miles to the store when the chance of a fatal accident is one in 1,000,000 or whatever it might be.

Meanwhile we cheerfully ignore much, much greater risks to children and others because we're used to them.

[DBeers]

I HATE GM, but this demand for perfection is laughable.

That's 13 deaths that are now known about & one problem now known about. It's not perfection being sought -it's ethics & accountability. On those counts GM fails miserably.

Normally, market forces penalize failure & reward success. In the case of GM a corrupt administration bailed out a corrupt automaker's unions & operations. NOW maybe the marketplace will put GM & its unions where they belong -the garbage. However, I doubt that will happen because of the Obama bankruptcy of GM that rewarded the failure.